Learn how to decorate a cotton zipper tote bag using your favorite stamps and All-Purpose Inks. You can customize your colors and images to match your purse, phone case or even an outfit. This would make a pretty pencil case, … Read More ...
Reverse Flower Cards
Dawn McVey has a fun flip on using flower dies. Instead of using bright colors for the petals and white for the centers she’s made white flowers with bright pops of color for the leaves and centers. The look is … Read More ...
Masking Stamps with Masking Fluid
Lisa has a great tip for using liquid masking fluid to mask off sections of your stamped images so you can water color over top, then remove the masking to add color to those sections. It’s perfect for masking off … Read More ...
Fax Parchment Craft with Stamping
Alexandra has a great idea to get the look of a throwback craft called Parchment Craft. It used parchment paper for white drawing, piercing and embossing with a stylus tool. She used a stamp as her pattern on heavy … Read More ...
Review and Project: Right at Home Stamps
I recently came across a stamp company that was new to me called Right at Home stamps. They carry adorable clear stamps many with coordinating dies as well as large cling mounted rubber background stamps and ink pads from … Read More ...
Heat Embossed Coasters
These cool heat embossed coasters would be a fun Father’s Day gift for dad. Instead of using stamps Terri used double sided adhesive shapes that she die cut to added embossing powder to. Visit the Scrapbook Adhesives blog for project … Read More ...
Tips for Adding a Bow to Cards
I know lots of card makers struggle to tie ribbon to add a bow to their cards. It sounds easy enough but getting that great looking bow can be a bit frustrating at times. Or maybe you’re new to using … Read More ...
Otter Card with Inlaid Die Cutting Technique
How cute are these otters?! Nichol Spohr used new dies from Simon Says Stamp and an inlaid die cutting technique to make it. I love how she used all the different colors of cardstock for the text! Made with with … Read More ...
One Layer Floral Card with Copic Coloring
This stunning card from Yana Smakula is done with just one layer but has so much dimension. She stamped the large flower stamp on the card front and colored it with Copic markers. And by also coloring the background around … Read More ...
Custom Planner Tabs
Emylia transformed some planner tabs she found at the office supply store into her own custom glitter tabs by covering them in washi tape. These can be customized to any project with different tapes and would also be fun on … Read More ...
Tips for Coloring Like an Artist
Learn how to color like an artist with tips from an expert. Dover Publication is sharing a section of Veronica Winters’ book filled with tips on coloring including blending and shading. These techniques work well for coloring book page as … Read More ...
Layered Cards
Layering is really trendy in card making right now. These lovely cards from Dawn McVey are double layered, she’s used not only used layered stamps but lots of layers of die cut shapes too. She’s sharing some tips on how … Read More ...
Graduation Card with Colored Pencils and Gamsol
I recently needed a graduation card and found some adorable stamps on Etsy from a shop called Isabel Cristina Stamps. I printed out the boy and cap and colored them with Prismacolor colored pencils blended with Gamsol solution. Learn more … Read More ...
Partial Die Cutting
Add an interesting 3D pop to your cards with partial die cutting. This easy technique allowed you to cut out only part of a dies shape. It’s a really great way to get more from your dies. Laurel Beard has … Read More ...
Make Easy Shaker cards with Adhesive Foam
By die cutting shapes from adhesive foam you can make some quick and easy shaker cards. Stephanie Bernard from the Stamps of Life will show you how to make your own fun shaker cards with this neat product. Click here … Read More ...